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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] New-found language of Tushan (Kushan?) http://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-ancient-language-discovered.html "The earliest Dravidian writings are attested around this time, but no Dravidan language has ever been attested anywhere West of Pakistan." Around 2,150 B.C.E., the short lived Gutian dynasty of Sumer, founded by invaders from the Central Zargo Mountains seized power from the dynasty that established the Akkadian Empire. [Ein Gedi (Hebrew:wild goat kid spring) may be from Agade (Sanskrit) health water) DD] About 3,400 years ago (1400 B.C.E.), the Northern Zargos Mountains and this site were both home to the Mittani Empire, whose leaders spoke a Sankrit derived Indo-Aryan language. But, the Mittani Empire was long gone by 800 B.C.E. Just to the North of the region of interest at the same time, the Uratu Kingdom was in existence in the Armenian Highlands. One of the last attested West Eurasian non-Indo-European language was spoken in the Elamite Empire (2800 BCE to 550 BCE) in present day Iran (with proto-Elamite writings a few hundred years earlier), and according to Wikipedia: "Elamite is regarded as a language isolate and has no close relation to the neighboring Semitic languages, to the Indo-European languages, or to Sumerian, even though it adopted the Sumerian syllabic script." (I personally suspect some distant relationship between Elamite and the Sumerian, Hattic, Hurrian and Minoan languages.) These names aren't an obvious fit to any of these. The best guess for the source of the people speaking the newly discovered language would be between Elam and the Neo-Assyrian empire. The Medes and Persians came onto the scene after the tablet was written. Background on the author's work at this site can be found here: "He has also been working for over a decade at the site of Ziyaret Tepe in southeastern Turkey, now identified as the Neo-Assyrian provincial capital of Tushan, where he is both project epigrapher and directs excavations in the lower town." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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